Naomi Chase is a poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer. She has published five books of poetry: The Judge's Daughter, Listening for Water, Waiting for the Messiah in Somerville, Mass., Gittel: The Would be Messiah, and Anonymous Fox; two chapbooks: Stacked (illustrated by Jon Agee) and The One Blue Thread, a Flume Press Prize Winner; and two non-fiction books: A Child is Being Beaten, Violence Against Children in America and The Underground Revolution: Hippies, Yippies, and Others. Her unpublished novel won the 1996 Hackney Literary Award for fiction.
She has written for the New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in Sojourner, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others. Anonymous Fox, was published by Turning Point Press in October 2009.